![]() ![]() ![]() I hope I’ve done them all justice.īut now comes the fun part. I obsessed over the apartment/commune the characters inhabited in Old Town, the way Marshall Field’s would have looked, a community hospital on the North Side, Maxwell Street. Frankly, while writing the book, I was more concerned with getting the Chicago settings right than the characters. Set the Night on Fire was (and is) a film-maker’s dream: a wealth of colorful characters, locations, and, in the portion that goes back to the late Sixties, opportunities to recreate what came before. ![]() I can’t write a scene without imagining it edited and printed, complete with pans, dolly shots, close-ups, and dressed sets. So I’ve always approached novel writing like a film-maker. Here she shares some casting ideas for an adaptation of her latest novel, Set the Night on Fire:Īs some of you may know, I studied film in graduate school, worked on a couple of features, and settled into the life of an industrial film/video producer before I started writing novels. Libby Fischer Hellmann's crime fiction thrillers include An Eye For Murder, A Picture Of Guilt, An Image Of Death, A Shot To Die For, Easy Innocence, and Doubleback. ![]()
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